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Explore the best poetry books, including popular collections, English poems about love, war, flowers, and twilight. Discover top-selling poetry titles and the best books to read
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The Poetry Witch Little Book of SpellsA tiny book of poetic spells connected to elemental forces A tiny book of poetic spells connected to elemental forcesEastWings choose the wind; sing us aware;Muse; spin; weave; spell; create in airIn this micro-book, acclaimed Poetry-Witch Annie Finch harvests her Spells, spun at the...
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Extra Hidden Life, Among the DaysPoetry of grief and sustenance from an award-winning poetBrenda Hillman begins her new book in a place of mourning and listening that is deeply transformative. By turns plain and transcendent, these poems meditate on trees, bacteria, wasps, buildings, roots, and stars, ending with twinned...
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Collected PoemsA collection of authentic, profound and beautiful poems.Author: James WrightPublisher: Wesleyan University PressPublished: 06/01/2007Pages: 596Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.69lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.80w x 0.68dISBN: 9780819568618About the AuthorJAMES WRIGHT was born in Martins Ferry, Ohio, in 1927. He was well known for his translations of such...
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Continued: Stories from a Road Less TraveledSpontaneous, colloquial, and anti-conventional verse from a celebrated Polish writer .Continued is a selection of poems by Piotr Sommer, spanning his career to date. A kind of poetic utterance, these "talk poems" are devoid of any singsong quality yet faithfully preserve all the melodies...
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A Barfield Reader: Selections from the Writings of Owen BarfieldA representative selection from the major writings of the man C. S. Lewis called "the wisest and best of my unofficial teachers."Owen Barfield was one of the most original and stimulating thinkers of the twentieth century, the man that C.S. Lewis said could not...
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Next Door to the Dead: PoemsWhen Kathleen Driskell tells her husband that she's gone to visit the neighbors, she means something different than most. The noted poet-whose last book, Seed across Snow, was twice listed as a national bestseller by the Poetry Foundation-lives in an old country church just...
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Horoscopes for the DeadWINNER--BEST POETRY--GOODREADS CHOICE AWARDS NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NEWSWEEK/THE DAILY BEAST NATIONAL BESTSELLER Billy Collins is widely acknowledged as a prominent player at the table of modern American poetry. And in this smart, lyrical, and mischievous collection of...
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Killing PlatoThe two sequences of this book form a braided ars poetica: "Killing Plato" and "Writing." The first is a numbered sequence of twenty-eight poems organized around an accident: a pedestrian has been hit by a truck and is dying in the middle of the...
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Selected Writ Cendrars PaOne of the great figures of modern French literature. Swiss-born in 1887, but French to the core in spirit, Cendrars roamed the world for many years, a restless seeker who made life an adventure and his novels and poems the record of a never-satisfied...
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Poems of Denise Levertov, 1960-1967Denise Levertov's Poems 1960-1967 brings together all of the poetry first published in The Jacob's Ladder (1961), O Taste and See (1964), and The Sorrow Dance (1967). This new compilation, beginning where her Collected Earlier Poems 1940-1960 (New Directions, 1979) left off, shows both...
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Turtle IslandDescribing the title of his collection of poetry and occasional prose pieces, Gary Snyder writes in his introductory note that Turtle Island is the old / new name for the continent, based on many creation myths of the people who have been here for...
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PatersonPaterson is both a place--the New Jersey city in whom the person (the poet's own life) and the public (the history of the region) are combined. Originally four books (published individually between 1946 and 1951), the structure of Paterson (in Dr. Williams' words) follows...
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Sky Below: Selected WorksChilean poet Raúl Zurita has long been recognized as one of the most celebrated and important voices from Latin America. His compelling rhythms combine epic and lyric tones, public and most intimate themes, grief and joy. This bilingual volume of selected works is the...
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All the Great TerritoriesWinner, Watherford Award for Best Books about Appalachia, 2020 In 2012 Matthew Wimberley took a two-month journey, traveling and living out of his car, during which time he had planned to spread his father's ashes. By trip's end, the ashes remained, but Wimberley had...
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In Between: The Poetry Comics of Mita MahatoPraise for Patterns by Mita Mahato "It's part vaudeville, part demonstration of how hard it is to really talk and listen, and it's entirely beautiful." -Paul Constant in The Seattle Review of Books Praise for Sea by Mita Mahato "Her paper-cut style, and topics...
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Unusually Grand Ideas: PoemsTitled after one of the side effects of antidepressants, Unusually Grand Ideas is a poignant account of clinical depression and the complications it introduces to marriage and fatherhood. James Davis May's poems describe mental illness with nuance, giving a full account of the darkness...
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Like the Singing Coming Off the Drums: Love PoemsA dazzling exploration of the intimate and public landscapes of passion from the American Poetry Society's 2018 Wallace Stevens Award-winner. In haiku, tanka, and sensual blues, Sonia Sanchez writes of the many forms love takes: burning, dreamy, disappointed, vulnerable. With words that revel and...
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Reading Vergil's Aeneid, 23: An Interpretive GuideVergil's Aeneid has been considered a classic, if not the classic, of Western literature for two thousand years. In recent decades this famous poem has become the subject of fresh and searching controversy. What is the poem's fundamental meaning? Does it endorse or undermine...
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Divine Ratios: PoemsThe reach of Divine Ratios is global, ranging from Tang Dynasty China and the Florentine Renaissance to contemporary Baltimore, post-World War II Berlin, and the landscapes of the Mountain West. The speed and mobility evoked in this new collection by Jacqueline Osherow are not...
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Honour Earth MotherHonour Earth Mother is an inspiring reminder of the affection and reverence that the Native peoples of North America have had for the land. For Native peoples the earth was special, the dwelling place of manitous and spirits and the repository of the bones...
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